Expertise

Areas of Interest:

  • Wetland restoration and ecosystem development
  • Wetlands and water quality
  • Wetlands and climate change, including carbon sequestration and peat accretion

For the past 30 years, Craft has studied the effects of climate change, eutrophication, and other human activities on estuarine and freshwater wetlands and the restoration of those ecosystems.

He focuses his work on the linkages between vegetation, soils, and soil fauna and the effects of human activities on these linkages. Craft also studies the effects of climate change on U.S. wetlands, the natural carbon sequestering capabilities of wetlands, and the ability and importance of wetlands restoration for maintenance and enhancement of water quality.

Craft's current work on carbon storage rates in wetlands has made an important contribution to the study of the global carbon cycle, while many of his long-term restoration studies in salt marshes are considered some of the best research to date in the field of restoration science.

Research interests include wetland restoration, nutrient enrichment & eutrophication, carbon sequstration, and effects of climate change.


Research: Climate change; Ecosystem development; Wetland restoration; Wetlands & water quality

Research Area:

  • Environmental Science

Areas:

  • Hydrology & Water Resources
  • Biogeochemistry & Environmental Microbiology

 

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Environmental Science

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Biology Department, University of Louisville (past)

Research Assistant Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University (past)

Director, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Odum School of Ecology, Division of Biological Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia (past)

Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Department of Marine Sciences, Division of Biological Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia (past)

Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Affairs, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Environmental Policy, Public Administration
Degrees
PhD, North Carolina State University, Soil Science, 1987
MS, University of Tennessee, Ecology, 1983
BA, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Biology, 1980
Keywords
ecology carbon cycle wetlands environmental restoration or remediation
Honors

Hugh Hammond Bennett Award in Soil Conservation and, North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, 1987

Associations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Estuarine Research Federation
Society of Wetland Scientists
Soil Science Society of America